Freight + Volume, New York

May I ask … how many of you have already had the experience of your mobile memory, i.e. your laptop or your external hard-drive, passing into a technological nirvana because of a technical fault? (…) In that case you too know this type of paralysis, completely new in cultural anthropology, in which our psyche beseeches our long-, medium- and short-term memory to kindly remember at once all traces of feelings, plans and productivity of the last months as these are threatening to disappear for ever...
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The Puppeteer

frame021- 'pop it', art magazine,2007, article: Lothar Schmidt

Oliver Dorfer (b. 1963) extracts from the everyday world its international images and signs – photos, comics, stick-on pictures and logos – and stores them digitally. He creates new forms and figures out of them in the Photoshop and uses these as source material for his paintings. Starting out from Otto Neurath’s pictograms developed in the 1920s, Lothar Schmidt attempts an approach to the work of the man from Upper Austria...
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